Before he would make his case against such falsehoods, her mother was already making the much needed tea to save her children from the killer virus.

"My six-year-older brother, Rajab Omar was shaken off his sleep and asked to sip the new ‘cure’... Too naive and perhaps one foot in sleep, he innocently asked, "Mama, mahamri wapi? (Mum, where is mandazi?" To him, it was breakfast time," narrated Sigomba.

However, little known to him, the message had spread like wildfire in the Mt Kenya forest.

So many other people had received the same message and others went as far as to post on their WhatsApp status and groups informing their friends about the cure.

Upon further enquiry, Sigomba said despite all other people reporting about the same message it was not verifiable given there were conflicting reports on where the baby was born.

Some claimed that the child was born in Tana River, others Msambweni, Waa, Kilifi, Isiolo and Lamu.

Others had it that it was at the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa County.

None of the mentioned maternities confirmed recording such a case.

Note: No known cure of the COVID-19 has so far been found. Researchers are still working on a possible vaccine against coronavirus which has so far claimed over 31,737 lives with thousands isolated and quarantined.

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